Gas-heater and chafing-dish holder.



H. L. AUSTWIGK.

GAS HEATER AND SHAPING DISH HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 2, 1910.

Patented Sept. 12, 1911.

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HENRY L. AUSTWICK, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

GAS-HEATER AND CHAFING-DISI-I HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 12, 1911.

Application filed December 2, 1910. Serial No. 595,278.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY L. AUsTwioK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gas-Heaters and Chafing-Dish Holders, of which the following is a specification.

My present invention relates particularly to a portable device for adjustment upon a gas burner, and embodying a holder and a heater in the form of a hood removably held in engagement with the holder, the said holder being adapted to receive and retain a chafing dish or other vessel in which articles of food may be heated or cooked, when the heating element or member is removed. With this in mind my improved invention resides in the features of construction and arrangement to be hereinafter described with reference to the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specification, and in which,

Figure l is a central vertical sectional view through my improved device, showing the same in operative engagement upon a gas burner, with the heater in position. Fig. 2 is a fragmentary elevation illustrating the connection of one of the free ends of the supporting frame, and Fig. 3 is a bottom plan view of the central portion of the heating hood.

Referring particularly to these figures, the supporting frame of my improved device comprises a single wire which is bent double at its central portion, and the doubled sections coiled for some distance to form a socket 5 adapted to fit about a gas burner 6 as shown in Fig. 1. The extensions 7 and 8 of said wire are then bent, as shown, upwardly and divergently from the socket 5, to a selected height, at which points they are bent angularly toward one another and then upwardly to provide small offsets 9. From these points the extensions 7 and 8 of the wire are bent toward one another in semi-circles indicated at 10, and their extemities 11 are bent outwardly and downwardly and coiled securely about the offset 9 of the opposite extension. In this manner I form a frame which is rigid and strong, and embodies an upper circular portion in which a chafing dish or other vessel (not shown) for heating or cooking food, may be disposed and held over the burner 6.

The heating member, which is used for heating the air within, and warming, a room, comprises a substantially concaveconvex hood 12 which, when disposed upon the holder just described, rests upon the upper circular frame of said holder, and which has a depending circular flange 13 at its edge which extends downwardly upon the outside of the wire extensions 7 and 8- below their offsets 9. This hood 12 has a central depending thimble 14 provided with a reduced end 15 on which is disposed a circular fire-brick 16, this fire-brick being held in position by means of a cotter-pin or the like 17, projecting through the reduced portion of the thimble below the said fire-brick. This fire-brick is thus held in position above the burner 6 to receive the direct rays of the flame therefrom, and its function is to prevent the hood 12, which is of metal, from becoming burned out, and also to radiate the heat through the surrounding air.

From the foregoing it will be readily seen that I provide a device which may be conveniently used either as an air heater, or as a support for a cooking vessel, without impairing the light in a room, and which is portable, and may be easily inserted in, and removed from, its operative position.

I claim:

1. The combination of a frame comprising a lower burner engaging portion and an upper, circular dish supporting portion, a removable heating hood adapted to rest upon said circular portion and having a surrounding flange to hold the same in position, and a heat distributing member carried by, and removable with, said hood.

2. The combination of asupporting frame comprising a wire doubled at its central point to form extensions and having its double portion coiled to form a socket adapted to fit over, and support the frame upon a gas burner, each of the extensions of said wire being bent upwardly and formed with an offset, and being bent be- In testimony whereof I aflix my signayondlsaid offset, into a sgmicircular porture in presence of two witnesses.

tion 1avin its extemity ent at an an 1e and coiled about the offset of the oppos ite HENRY AUSTWICK' extension, and an air heating hood embodying a flange to surround the said semi-Circular portions of said frame.

Witnesses:

MYRON G. CLEAR, ANNA M. MENGEL.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, I). G. 

